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Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Yahoo
The App Store's new AI-generated tags are live in the beta
Apple's plans to improve App Store discoverability using AI tagging techniques are now available in the developer beta build of iOS 26. However, the tags do not appear on the public App Store as of yet, nor are they informing the App Store Search algorithm on the public store. Of course, with any upcoming App Store update, there's speculation about how changes will impact an app's search ranking. A new analysis by app intelligence provider Appfigures, for example, suggests metadata extracted from an app's screenshots is influencing its ranking. The firm theorized that Apple was extracting text from screenshot captions. Previously, only the app's name, subtitle, and keyword list would count towards its search ranking, it said. The conclusion that screenshots are informing app discoverability is accurate, based on what Apple announced at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC 25), but the way Apple is extracting that data involves AI, not OCR techniques, as Appfigures had guessed. At its annual developer conference, Apple explained that screenshots and other metadata would be used to help improve an app's discoverability. The company said it's using AI techniques to extract information that would otherwise be buried in an app's description, its category information, its screenshots, or other metadata, for example. That also means that developers shouldn't need to add keywords to the screenshots or take other steps to influence the tags. At WWDC, Apple says it will use AI to tag apps to improve discoverability on the App Store This allows Apple to assign a tag to better categorize the app. Ultimately, developers would be able to control which of these AI-assigned tags would be associated with their apps, the company said. Plus, Apple assured developers that humans would review the tags before they went live. In time, it will be important for developers to better understand tags and which ones will help their app get discovered, when the tags reach global App Store users. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Time of India
12-06-2025
- Time of India
Apple adds more safety features for kids on iPhones with iOS 26: Parental permission for new chats, image blurring and more
Apple announced its next generation operating system for iPhones at the recently held Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). Dubbed iOS 26 (and not iOS 19), the software update brings a unique Liquid Glass interface to Apple iPhone among several new features. With iOS 26, Apple has also updated its child safety features that gives more control to parents over who their kids can communicate with. New parental controls with iOS 26 With iOS 26, when a child wants to talk to someone new through text, they'll need their parent's permission. A request will show up in the Messages app, and parents can tap to allow or block it. Apple is also introducing something called 'PermissionKit.' This will help other apps add similar safety features, so kids can send requests to parents before chatting, following, or adding new people. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Experts Tested 17 Hearing Aids. Their #1 Pick Will Shock You Undo As per a report by The Verge, developers can request age range information with a new 'Declared Age Range API.' For children under 13, Apple already has strong safety settings like web filters and app limits. Now, similar protections will be added for teens aged 13 to 17. Apple's Communication Safety feature is also getting smarter. If nudity is detected during a FaceTime video call, the system will step in. It will also blur inappropriate images in shared photo albums. With the latest operating system, the App Store is updating its age ratings to be more detailed — with new categories like 13+, 16+, and 18+. Further, the company will allow parents to share a child's age range with the app. AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
Indian Express
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Apple releases F1 haptic trailer that only works on iPhones: Here's how to watch
At its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2025, Apple made multiple references to Formula 1, and now the tech giant has released a new exclusive Haptic Trailer for F1 The Movie, which you can only watch on an iPhone. The haptic trailer uses the iPhone's Taptic Engine to let people 'feel the action' by simply holding the phone in their palms. When watching the trailer for the upcoming movie, the phone physically vibrates in sync with different scenes like engine revving, roaring, time ticking, crashes, and the seatbelt clicking. This may sound gimmick at first, but it does offer a more immersive experience. In case you are wondering, this is similar to how you would experience a movie in 4DX, which uses motion-enabled seats in conjunction with atmospheric effects like wind and lightning. Available on iPhones running iOS 18.4 or newer, the Haptic Trailer can be experienced from the Apple TV Plus tab of the built-in TV app. Experience the new @F1Movie trailer on iPhone in a way only Apple can deliver. — Tim Cook (@tim_cook) June 11, 2025 For those wondering, this is the first movie trailer in the world to offer haptic feedback to enhance the viewing experience. With a budget of around $300 million, the upcoming F1 movie might prove to be Apple's biggest theatrical release yet. F1 The Movie will be making its debut in India on June 27. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, who also made Top Gun: Maverick, the movie features Brad Pitt as the lead and an audio score by Hans Zimmer. It also features Javier Bardem, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Sarah Niles, Kim Bodnia, and Samson Kayo. Following the theatrical release, F1 The Movie will also be available to stream for Apple TV+ subscribers. However, the company is yet to clarify if and when it will be coming to the streaming service.
Mint
11-06-2025
- Mint
Apple WWDC 2025: The future is Liquid Glass and Live Translate
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference may well be a developer-focused conference (it's in the name, really) first and foremost, but the big-ticket announcements and updates offer a peak into the next generation of features coming to an Apple-branded product near you soon. Whether you use an iPhone, a Mac, a Watch or Apple TV, the annual event in Cupertino (June 9-13) serves as a zeitgeist, a barometer of how we'll be using our personal tech in the year ahead…even as the stakes are higher than usual with key Siri AI features being pushed out to the coming year. We cut through the glut of announcements to bring you all the stuff that matters from WWDC 2025, live from Cupertino, California. The 'Liquid Glass' Interface Overhaul Apple's last significant interface revamp happened way back with iOS7 in 2013, so the new look 'Liquid Glass" interface inspired by the glossy, translucent interface elements used in VisionOS on Apple's Vision Pro VR/AR headset, will be a significant change across all of Apple's platforms without significantly changing the now-familiar navigation. Consumers upgrading to the new iOS/macOS later this year will see a more lens-like appearance with specular highlights and dynamic movements as you change the viewing angle, all of which look stunning in the initial use cases demonstrated across the iOS lockscreen and the macOS UI. With the unified design language across all of its platforms, Apple has also changed how it will signify its major updates each year, which will now be numbered based on the year following their introduction, a little bit like carmakers do with new car releases. Say hello to iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26! Also read: 10 Indian AI startups and products to watch out for Big upgrades to communications Often overlooked in the smartphone space, Apple's brought back some attention to the 'phone' aspect in the upcoming iOS 26. The new Call Screening feature can be set to pick up calls from unknown numbers, screen the caller for a reason why they're calling, and then ring the call through if you so deem fit, while the Hold Assist keeps the call connected as you wait on your bank/service provider's helplines and rings you back when an agent finally answers the call. All very handy, but the most interesting feature is Live Translation which, as the name suggests, will offer on-the-fly translation across Phone, Messages and FaceTime apps – bringing up live captions in your default language on a FaceTime call if you're conversing with someone in a different language, adding a spoken translation alongside the voice of the person you're speaking with on a regular phone call, or translating the message into the recipient's preferred language and vice versa. Speaking of messages, the app now offers customizable backgrounds, polls and typing indicators, all somewhat delayed additions but when combined with the generative AI rewriting/summarization tools, bring the app up to a modern spec. iPad OS multi-tasking gets more Mac-like Apple's tablets have, slowly but surely, been edging towards macOS-esque multi-tasking over the years, and iPadOS 26 will bring big changes, particularly around multi-tasking. Along with a new, more precise mouse pointer, there's a new windowing system via which you can resize full-screen apps to windows, a new persistent menu at the top of the screen, and a new multi-tasking view (Exposé, borrowed from macOS) which shows you thumbnails of open windows so you can select the one you want. The Files app on iPadOS now more closely resembles macOS file browsing, with the ability to drag files/folders onto the dock, and Preview app from the Mac is heading over to the iPad to edit PDFs, annotate images and documents and the like. We may not have gotten the touchscreen Mac we've been asking for all these years, but the iPad looks to be getting close enough…in all but name. macOS gets a shot in the arm for power users macOS's Spotlight search feature is getting a much overdue upgrade, from being able to search and open stuff, it can now do stuff. Once apps provide access to Spotlight to individual actions within the app, like playing music, sending an email, you can then invoke these actions without even leaving the home screen, a little bit of an Apple Intelligence take on AI agents from the competition that help consumers get things done. And we finally have macOS keeping your clipboard history, ready to access even if you've copied something more recently! Elsewhere, Apple is making the Shortcuts capability better, allowing it to access various AI models (including ChatGPT) to accomplish what you're trying to do. Apple is also bringing the Phone and the newly announced Games app to macOS 26, along with support for the iPhone's Live Activities. watchOS 26 Workouts get a new buddy Aside from the Liquid Glass makeover across all platforms, Apple Watch users upgrading to watchOS 26 later this year a new Workout Buddy, which uses Apple Intelligence and your fitness history to give you pep talks with a summary of your workout stats at the end of your workout. On a run, for instance, this may mean a pep talk during your warmup and suggestions to pick up your pace during the run, and how to cool down. Plus, there's a new wrist flick gesture to dismiss notifications, and the Notes app is making an appearance as well, allowing you to access all your notes and create new ones directly on your wrist. Apple Intelligence opens up Though the updates on Apple Intelligence were light, Apple did announce a pretty significant shift in how third-party apps can access the on-device large language model used by Apple Intelligence. By giving developers direct access to the models, apps can now tap into the whole gamut of intelligence experiences locally on the device without the associated per-transaction costs of accessing the LLM via the cloud API (application programming interface). Handier to folks like you and me – you can search for anything you see on your screen using Visual Intelligence/ChatGPT, in a move not entirely dissimilar to Google's Circle to Search capability. Apple's updates to all its platforms are in a developer beta right now, and will be released later this year (typically September) to consumers. Also read: OnePlus 13s review: A compact flagship for small hands and tight pockets The writer was invited by Apple to attend WWDC25 in Cupertino.
New York Post
10-06-2025
- New York Post
iPhone users aghast over ‘eyesore' iOS update: ‘Ugliest thing Apple has ever done'
They thought it was an i-Sore. The preview of Apple's much-anticipated iOS 26 update has been ripped up and down by critics, many of whom dubbed the new look 'ugly' and difficult to read. Dubbed Liquid Glass, the facelift was unveiled at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, along with other features, marking the tech giant's first interface makeover in a decade, Wired reported. Advertisement The design overhaul — which is available for developers with a public beta slated for next month — makes app icons, menus, pop-ups and more appear translucent like frosted glass so background colors appear blurry as if refracted through them. 'Liquid Glass Design is the ugliest thing @Apple has ever done!' fumed one unimpressed Apple fan. Apple Designers felt the new look was too translucent to be readable. Apple Advertisement The new design will roll out across the whole catalog of Apple products, from iPads to Smartwatches to the Apple TV. 'The new material, Liquid Glass, is translucent and behaves like glass in the real world,' Apple explains on the site. 'Its color is informed by surrounding content and intelligently adapts between light and dark environments.' Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, hailed the Liquid Glass design as 'gorgeous.' Advertisement However, users were less than enthused about the increased transparency. 'Liquid Glass Design is the ugliest thing @Apple has ever done!' fumed one unimpressed Apple fan, while another wrote, 'Steve Jobs would have never approved this.' 'Apple's new glassy UI (user interface) design literally hurts my eyes to look at,' vented a third. 'The notifications are a literal eyesore. It's the definition of form over function. This OS update is going to be the worst thing Apple has done since iOS 7. No joke.' Advertisement One critic griped, 'Apple has done it again; they have managed to make their UI worse than last year. I don't know who is in charge of the Apple aesthetics, but whomever they put in charge should be fired immediately.' Even designers are skeptical about the anticipated Liquid Glass. 'It's hard to read some of it,' Allan Yu, a product designer currently building the workplace messaging app Output, told Wired. 'Mainly because I think they made it too transparent.' Josh Puckett, cofounder of Iteration, which helps startups with designs, said that the design was a bit 'distracting' and 'challenging to read,' but remained optimistic that they'd improve the legibility over time
